OUR MISSION
To assist and empower people to find their joy and live the life they choose.
For Georgia Residents with Developmental Disability
We offer a unique combination of premier residential supports and community-based social services.
Research indicates that there is a significant need for quality residential supports and community-based social services within this region and we believe that by employing experienced and well-educated staff and providing them with 24/7 support, excellent training, and quick response to needs, we will become the support service agency of choice in Georgia.
Services available include:
- Supported Living Arrangements
- Individualized matching of support staff with associate, and associate with roommate
- Establishing Natural Supports/ Community Connections
- Personal Support
- Supported employment/ Job Placement
- Career readiness skills/ Pre-employment skills
- Financial Management assistance
- Social Skills Development
DD Services
Community Access Services (CAS)
Community Access Services are designed to assist the participant in acquiring, retraining, or improving self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills required for active community participation and independent functioning outside the participants home or family home.
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Community Living Support (CLS) Services
CLS services include training and assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs), such as bathing, dressing toileting, and transferring, with instrumental activities of daily living, such as personal hygiene, shopping, using telephone, and medication and money management.
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Community Residential Alternative (CRA)
CRA services include assistance with and/or training in activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, grooming, other personal hygiene, feeding, toileting, transferring, and other similar tasks.
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Specialized Medical Supplies (SMS)
Consist of food supplements, special clothing, diapers, bed wetting protective sheets and other authorized supplies specified in the Individual Service Plan.
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Supported Employment (SE)
SE services consist of activities needed to obtain an sustain paid work by participants, including job location, job development, supervision, training, services and supports that assist participants in achieving self-employment through the operation of a business, including helping the participant identify potential business opportunities, assisting in the development of a business plan, identifying the supports that are necessary for the participant to operate a business, and ongoing assistance, counseling and guidance once the business has been launched.
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Transportation (Trans)
Services enable participants to gain access to waiver and other community services, activities, resources, and organizations typically utilized by the general population.
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New Options Waiver Program (NOW)
The NOW waiver program offers services and supports to individuals to enable them to remain living in their own or family home and participate or live independently in the community.
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Comprehensive Supports Waiver Program (COMP)
The COMP waiver program, which serves individuals with more intensive needs, primarily provides residential care for individuals with I/DD. These individuals require comprehensive and intensive services and need out-of-home residential support and supervision or intensive levels of in-home services to remain in the community.
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Middle Georgia
1285 Walnut Street
Macon, GA 31201
478-743-9801
mailbox@starchoices.org
North Georgia
Gwinnett: Gnstarga@gmail.com
Hall: Gnstarga@gmail.com
Stephens, Franklyn, Habersham: nstarga@gmail.com
Service Areas
Serving Counties in North & Middle Georgia
- Macon/Bibb
- Gwinnett
- Hall
- Habersham
- Stephens